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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

30 years of The Cure in Orange...

...and STILL no official release on DVD or Blu-Ray! That should be a crime, right? :)

From Lol on Facebook: "So my friend Toberr reminded me that tomorrow is thirty (!) years since
the Cure played at the Theatre Antique D'Orange in France. We filmed
the whole affair with Tim Pope at the helm for our film " The Cure In
Orange". In "Cured" you can read about something that happened to me
when we filmed it that added to the strange psychedelic madness of that
experience !"

Don't worry...with all these incomplete projects it only means retirement will need to be delayed for as long as possible. Maybe for at least another decade? HAHA. And with fewer revenue streams (delayed album, DVD/Blu-ray releases of concerts, etc.) they will just have to resort to touring more often...ideally once every other year? In the meantime, YouTube/Vimeo videos will have to suffice. Unfortunately, I have no device on which to play my old VHS tape of In Orange :)

@piggie sorry had I known, I just threw out a vcr yesterday. Must be the last stand alone one on earth. I seriously have not seen a vcr in at least 10 years. I think. I have not had vhs tapes in at least 20 years.

@piggie sorry had I known, I just threw out a vcr yesterday. Must be the last stand alone one on earth. I seriously have not seen a vcr in at least 10 years. I think. I have not had vhs tapes in at least 20 years.

@Shawn - I still have an old non-functioning VCR. Not sure why I kept it (might be my hoarding tendency. LOL)@ All I have to do - I actually still have some old VHS tapes of Galore, Play Out and a few others somewhere floating around in storage, purchased in the late '90s (right around the time DVD's started to hit the consumer market). We now take YouTube for granted, but as recently as 2004-ish, one still had to rely primarily on these tapes/DVD's (or bootlegs) to view Cure videos. Once in a blue moon you might catch it on VH1 Classic. Now that you can watch anything virtually on demand, it takes away from the excitement of watching a Cure video for the first time...but I still would take YouTube over analog counterparts any day. That said, I'm still dying to play my dusty Boys Don't Cry vinyl album I picked up at a flea market eons ago. I don't have a record player, but my parents still have a vintage Sony "hi-fi" (not Wi-Fi! lol) system with turntable that they brought with them when they moved here from HK decades ago. It's older than I am, but surprisingly enough has outlasted all subsequent CD/MP3/MD players (remember those?) and other devices purchased over the years.

That's awesome! It seems a lot of the older equipment was often times better made with greater attention to quality, though they probably still pale in comparison (in some but not all respects) to today's higher end systems.

Speaking of crime, if you're having trouble getting the stream to play all the way through, don't try to download a copy. Your ISP will lock your account and scold you about piracy before they let you log back in. Not that I would know anything about such things...>:(

The good ole days when every song intro didnt have bloody annoying hi-hat hitting all the way through....or even worse the god awful click track they use now at the start of Push...completely unnecessary and sounds shit !